The Way to Schenectady

The Way to SchenectadyBy: Richard Scrimger Illustrator: Linda Hendry Twelve year old Jane Peeler is about to embark on a summer ritual: the family car trip. Along with her two younger brothers, Bill and Bernie, Jane will endure traffic jams, singalongs, and fights over who gets the window on a two day car trip to New England. With help from her Walkman, it may not be too bad, even if her chain smoking, grumpy grandmother is coming along. But during a stop at a gas station,

especially their bodies

讓孩子初步認識永續目標

- Alan Durant

Heaps of rib-tickling dinosaur rhymes to send you poetry potty

it’s not about moving through the gym with ease

finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries

But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels

as well as the trucks they see everyday on the road or at construction sites

A distraught scullery maid appears at Dody’s Women’s Clinic begging for an abortion

Ideal for readers aged 7+

You could call him the Quentin Tarantino of cult fiction

By: Jillian Hunter  Hailed for her “wicked wit and exquisite sensuality” (Booklist)